b. 21 Jan. 1905, Charlottetown, P.E.I.-d. 6 Nov. 1987, Deep River, ON
Physicist, Chalk River
Laurence was educated at Dalhousie and Cambridge under Ernest Rutherford. In 1939-40, he attempted, virtually alone, to build a graphite-uranium atomic reactor in Ottawa. In 1942 he joined the Anglo-French research team in Montreal that built the ZEEP reactor, the first outside the US at Chalk River in 1945, and served in the Canadian delegation to the UN Atomic Energy Commission (1946-47), then became a senior scientist at the Chalk River Nuclear Labs and president of the Atomic Energy Control Board (1961-70).
Sources: The Canadian Encyclopedia, 1988
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